...original brightness, nor appear'd . . , Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'tl : As when the sun, new risen. Looks through the horizontal...misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moonj In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half tke nations, nni with fear of change , Perplexes...

...'Of glory obscured: as' when the sun new risen • Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. f. iv, DD 3 cHAP. Looks through the horizontal misty air *• Shorn of his beams; or, from behind the moon, < >f the Su- jn flim ec]ipsei disastrous twilight sheds ^u *la^ *he natlous ; anc^ with fear of change,...

...of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: • " As when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser, Mr. Tomkyns; for...

...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Paradise Lost. In this example are two similes in succession ; and it may be observed, that, in order...

...whole poem, for imaginary treason in the following lines ; as when the sun new risen • Looks thro' the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs " By what means the poet was happily enabled to triumph over the malevolence of an enemy in office,...

...of that attention, and of the use he made of terror* in one of his most famous similes : ,As wheti the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances are perfectly applicable to the fallen archangel ; but Milton possibly felt that...

...original brightness ; nor appealed Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from bc-hind the Moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change...

...singular instance of that attention, and of the use he made of terron, in one of his most famous similes: As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or froni behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances...

...comet " from its horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war" And that the sun -from behind the rnooji, Jn dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . • On half...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs" — — To this also the still more sublime psalmist may refer ; " They that dwell in the uttermost...

...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of Glory obscur'd: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beanis; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and...